FORMER US PRESIDENT CONCERNED OVER MYANMAR UNREST
By AYE AYE WIN Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter pours water on a Buddha statue as he visits the famed Shwedagon Pagoda Friday, April 5, 2013 in Yangon, Myanmar. Carter…
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HIGH-PROFILE RAPES THREATEN INDIA TOURISM BUSINESS
By KAY JOHNSON In this Tuesday, April 2, 2013 photo, German tourist Carolina De Paola, 22, walks near the landmark Gateway of India in Mumbai, India. A fatal gang rape…
SINGAPORE PRIME MINISTER VISITS WHITE HO– USE
By MATTHEW PENNINGTON FILE – In this April 12, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama shakes hands with Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Washington. On Tuesday, Prime Minister…
AP OPENS FULL NEWS BUREAU IN MYANMAR
FILE – In this Tuesday, March 26, 2013 file photo, Buddhist devotees visit Yangon’s famous Shwedagon pagoda on Full Moon Day of Tabaung, the last month in the Myanmar calendar,…
PRIVATELY OWNED DAILY NEWSPAPERS RETURN TO MYANMAR
By AYE AYE WIN Newspaper sellers wait for a bus after receiving newspapers from a wholesale dispatcher in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, April 1, 2013. For most people in Myanmar, it…
DOOMED US NAVY SHIP REMOVED FROM PHILIPPINE REEF
By JIM GOMEZ FILE – In this March 29, 2013 photo released by the Philippine Coast Guard, workers prepare for lifting of a part of the dismantled hull of the…
UN TO PAY OVERDUE SALARIES AT CAMBODIA TRIAL
FILE – In this Oct. 19, 2011 file photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, court officers of the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal are seen through…
40 YEARS ON, VIETNAM TROOP WITHDRAWAL REMEMBERED
By GILLIAN FLACCUS and LISA CORNWELL FILE – In this March 29, 1973 file photo, the American flag is furled at a ceremony marking official deactivation of the Military Assistance…